Inspired by another thread.
Mine is only small and wedding never happened but sums my DM up perfectly.
We had barely started to plan our wedding, DP was born in UK but MIL is from a different culture where the mother tends to give the groom away just like the father would give the bride away in most. We have decided to incorporate this into our ceremony as we knew MIL would be touched and it would mean the world to her.
When I told my DM she came back within a few mins with this scary giddy look in her eye and announced that she should walk me down the aisle with DF too and wouldn't that be so great and lovely! Of course there was a sulk and "you must be ashamed of me" when she was gently (and I mean VERY gently) turned down.
In hindsight it's probably a good thing DS showed up and we postponed the wedding as I can now see how people were trying to get involved in it and we were blind to it at the time, in my minds eye I can fully see my DM turn up in white! She did say she wanted a long ball gown not a knee length dress for the wedding.